Westlake, Texas: Day 5 04/18/08

What a day! This was the day of Six Flags Over Texas! The most ancient Amusement Park of the Six Flags chain in America, and much more exciting than any of those in Spain! This was really the day mostly everyone was waiting! We got to the park at 10:50 A.M. and could stay there until 2:30 P.M. I spent the whole day in the park with Alberto, Manolo, Álvaro, Ibón, Ibái, Luis Óscar, Gonzalo, and Willy. We first went to ride on the most amazing-looking rollercoaster, called the Titan. Whoa! What a ride! Alberto and I sat on the second seats and whereas Alberto lifted his arms during the whole ride, I was so scared that I held the handlebars all the time. From my own experience, this ride was much better than anyone from Terra Mítica; it had so many great loops and many times it seemed that we were going to crash against some of the close long poles that held the rollercoaster. They said that The Titan ran at a speed of 120 km/hr. We all enjoyed it and thought it was quite short!




Next, we took a ride on the Texas Giant, rated the best wooden rollercoaster in the USA. This time, I sat on the last seat with Manolo! Just before the ride, ALberto and I did a bet, in which he would pay me two dollars if I lifted my arms during the whole ride, or otherwise I would have to pay them to him. Unfortunately, the ride was so fast and scary that from the moment the rollercoaster began to fall its first steep slope, I put my hands on the handlebars for the entire trip. On the other hand, Manolo dared lifting his hands until the end! This ride was indeed longer and even faster, but did not have any loops at all; however, sometimes we got the impression that we were going to get smashed against some wooden poles. It was a terrible fun experience!




Later, we ate some pop corn and pizza.

Afterwards, at 1:00 P.M. we went to try if we could ride Batman, but got quite upset on realizing that there was a very long queue and the guy in charge of the rollercoaster warned us that we would have to wait at least two hours. So instead of riding on Batman, we rode on Mr. Freeze, which for Álvaro, Ibái and me was the most incredible rollercoaster in the enitre amusement park. Ibái and I sat on the first seats! The machine accelerated and ran at an extremely high speed until the very top after many loops, and then came all the way back; in total it lasted about 25 seconds, quite short, but INTENSE. Of course, I did not dare to lift my arms in this frightening ride.

Later, we all went to some luck games. In one of them, Ibón won a cool black acoustic
guitar for having scored two consecutive balls in a bucket. Then, a friendly adult who saw Ibón with the guitar out of tune, offered his help to tune it. Once it was correctly tuned, I borrowed it and started playing it. Meanwhile, a Mexican happy-go-lucky-looking 19-year-old fellow approached to me with a small funny red guitar, and started having a nice conversation. We talked about music, our favorite bands, where he and I came from, etc. He told me that he was born to Mexican parents in California, and was enlisted in the infantry army of the USA in New Mexico. He said that he came by car from New Mexico by himself to Six Flags to spend the whole day and later return to New Mexico, since the next day he had duty in the army. He was a really kind and naive person; I kind of felt sorry for him though, but he was so nice that ibón and I decided to be generous and exchange guitars. And suddenly, Ane, Rocío, Alejandra and the other girls appeared, and Alejandra said a funny lie to the man, begging him to give Patricia his Tweety hat he was wearing on his head until he took it very seriuosly and gave it to Patricia. We all laughed and had a great time, and just then at 2:30 P.M. we said farewell to the poor Mexican guy and left Six Flags Over Texas.



We went by car to WLA, and at 3:45 P.M. Olivia's mother took Alberto, her daughter and me to a video club to rent three movies: "The Hitcher", "The Texas Massacre", and "Without a Paddle". Later we went to their house. A while later, Olivia's mother let us use her golf cart. We both spent the rest of the afternoon riding the golf cart, doing races with some neighbors and then we met with Ane, Rocío, Bailey and her brother Tater around Bailey's house. We took many photos of us with the golf cart and Tater's motor scooter, and did fun races. At night, we ate some pizza with Olivia, and later went to the cinema in her house to watch "The Hitcher", a scary movie. We then realized that the "Texas Massacre" we picked was the older one so we decided to not see it. At 12:30 A.M. we all went to bed.